Are you still messing around with this? look at the original question and see my response, notice the big number next to it - that's because you'd be done by now if you'd tried.
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Chopper3Dec 3 '10 at 19:17

i don't see your response. I got it now thank you though!
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Andrew FashionDec 3 '10 at 19:32

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tar: z: Wrote only 6144 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Tar is trying to create a file called "z" in your current directory (and is presumably running out of space, which is what this error usually means). This is happening because the -f option takes an argument, so your command line is, effectively, this: